Cigarette snuffing attachment for cigarette packages



United States Patent CIGARETTE SNUFFING ATTACHMENT FOR CIGARETTEPACKAGES Sidney 0. Cohen, Hickman Mills, and Mont E. Goodell, KansasCity, Mo., and Claude J. Hilton, Wichita Falls, Tex., and Herbert E.Somerville and Maurice J. Street, Kansas City, Kans.

Application March 15, 1954, Serial No. 416,228

1 Claim. (Cl. 131-4) This invention relates to snufier arrangements forextinguishing rolls of smoking tobacco such as cigars and cigarettes,and has to do particularly with the provision of a package having abuilt-in snutfer or self-contained construction for permitting suchextinguishment.

It is the most important object of the present invention to provide apackage such as those commonly employed to contain cigarettes with asnuifer conveniently mounted therein or attached thereto so that thesmoker will always have the snufier handy and ready for use particularlywhen there is no other means readily available for receiving the smokedcigar or cigarette.

Another important object of the present invention is the provision of asnufler for packages of cigarettes that is contained within the packageand which may be opened for use after removal of but a few of thecigarettes and which snuflfer is packed in a collapsed condition at thefactory.

Still another object relates to the way in which the snuffer is madeinexpensively and easily while providing means to eliminate any firehazard; and to many additional objects including important details ofconstruction, all of which will be made clear as the followingspecification progresses.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary, top plan view on an enlarged scale partiallybroken away and partially in section of a package of cigarettes showinga cigarette snufling attachment made pursuant to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the snufierexpanded afterremoval of some of the cigarettes from the package.

Fig. 3 is an edge elevational view of the package of cigarettesillustrating the snutfer in dotted lines.

An initially closed, hollow, substantially rectangularlyparallelepipedal package having a plurality of laminated wallsconsisting of top wall 11, bottom wall 13, side walls and 17, and endwalls 19 and 21 is particularly adapted for packaging a plurality ofcylindrical cigarettes 12 of a given diameter. Package 10 includes amain paper body portion 14, a cellophane wrapping 16 and a liner withinthe body portion 14 that includes a layer 18 of paper covered with metalfoil 20, interposed between the lining 18 and the body 14.

A snufier 22 is an integral part of the package 10 and particularly ofthe layers 18 and 20. Snutfer 22 consists of a frusto-conical, hollowbody having an inner lamination 24 and an outer lamination 26 integralwith parts 20 and 18 respectively of the package 10. Accordingly, sincethe lamination 24 consists of metal foil, the snnfier 22 is linedentirely with a noninflammable material.

As seen in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the flexibility of the materials fromwhich laminations 24 and 26 are made,

permits packaging of the cigarettes 12 to the full capacity of thepackage 10 by folding the snuifer 20 along creases 23 and 25 into a flatcollapsed condition along the innermost face of one wall of the package10. It is only necessary, therefore, to remove but a few of thecigarettes 12 in order to expand the snuifer 22 to its frusto-conicalshape as shown in Fig. 2, positioned to receive a cigarette to beextinguished.

Conveniently, the snutfer 22 is disposed along one side wall of thepackage 10 where it is immediately exposed to view and to subsequent usewhen the package of cigarettes 10 is opened in the usual manner bytearing away a portion of the top thereof. Manifestly, the largeuppermost end of the snuifer 22 is open for ready reception of thecigarette, but a bottom wall 28 may be provided closing the lowermostsmall end of the snulfer 22 if desired. It is not essential however,that the wall 28 be provided if the lowermost end of the snuifer 22 isin close engagement with the bottom wall 13 of the package 10 so thatthe snuifer 22 collects the ashes and does not permit the same to mixwith the remaining cigarettes 12 of the package 10.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

A disposable package for substantially cylindrical cigarettes of givendiameter having a built-in snutfer for extinguishing the latter, saidpackage comprising an initially closed, hollow, substantiallyrectangularly parallel pipedal, paper body having a bottom, a pair ofsides, a pair of ends and a top; and a laminated liner within the bodyhaving an inner paper layer and an outer layer of metal foil, said linerbeing of configuration substantially conforming to the interior of thebody, said liner having a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, a pair ofend walls and a top wall, the outer layer of the bottom wall, top wall,side walls and one end wall being in respective engagement with theinner surface of the bottom, top, sides and one end of the body, theother end wall of the liner proximate the other end of the bodyincluding an elongated, tubular, upright, substantially frusto-co'nical,snuffer portion integral with the remainder thereof, the upper and lowerends of said snuifer portion being respectivelyof larger and smallerdiameters than said first-mentioned diameter, said snutfer portion ofsaid other end wall being of looped cross-section and being normallycollapsed along a pair of opposed, longitudinal creases therein tonormally dispose the snutfer portion in flattened, superposedrelationship upon the inner surface of the remainder of said other endwall, the upper end of said snuifer portion being disposed immediatelybelow said top wall, and portions of the top and the top wall beingremovable to provide access to cigarettes within the package and saidsnuffer portion of the lining.

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